2015 Project Grant Winners Announced

For Immediate Release
October 6, 2015

The announcement of AHL-Jason J. Kim and
AHL-Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Grant Winners

After a highly competitive selection process that drew applicants from across the U.S., the AHL (Art, Humanity, Love) Foundation is pleased to announce its inaugural 2015 winners for the biannual Jason J. Kim and the annual Andrew & Barbara Choi Family grants. The two project grants are designed to recognize and support the accomplishments of talented contemporary visual artists of Korean heritage working in the United States.

 

Nancy Hwang has been selected to receive the prestigious $20,000 AHL-Jason J. Kim Grant for her upcoming project “Somewhere in America” where Hwang will solicit individuals to submit a description of a journey to somewhere in America. The artist and the invited individual will then take the journey together to discover each other, themselves, and the destination, while exploring biases, insights and local state of affairs. Through the shared primary experience of a journey worth sharing, the artist plans to form an accumulative portrait of America and present it in collaboration with curator Catharina Manchanda.

 

Jaye Rhee will be award the $5,000 AHL-Andrew & Barbara Choi Grant for her project “The Perfect Moment” which is currently on view at the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University and will travel to University Galleries, Texas State University in San Marcos in February of 2016. The two channel video along with eight photographs explore the visceral nature of the human body and its movements along with the ever elusive re-representation of a narrative – a re-telling and re-enactment of the perfect moment by two dancers, old and young.

 

The main goals of the AHL Foundation project grants are to support the artist’s creative process and to cultivate innovative and challenging works through financial assistance during key moments in the development of an art project. Two most important criteria for the grants are artistic merit and its impact on contemporary art.

 

The AHL–Jason J. Kim Grant is the largest grant of its kind in the U.S. and is intended for mid-career artists who have already demonstrated an exceptional capacity in the visual arts and aims to assist these artists in realizing specific projects at critical moments of financial need. AHL–Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Grant aims to nurture and assist talented visual artists of all career stages in realizing forthcoming projects while building their capacity to sustain their productive long-term careers.

 

The next grant application deadlines will be May 2016 for Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Grant and May 2017 for Jason J. Kim Grant. For additional information about our grants and other programs, please visit www.ahlfoundation.org or contact us at info@ahlfoundation.org.

 

About AHL Foundation

AHL (Art, Humanity, Love) Foundation is a 501(c)3 visual arts organization with a mission to support Korean artists living in the United States and is committed to promoting and providing greater exposure of their work. Founded by Sook Nyu Lee Kim in 2003, the AHL Foundation has been committed to seeking and promoting talented Korean and Korean-American artists while building a wider public awareness of the important cultural contributions made by these artists. AHL programs include special exhibitions, art history classes, public lectures, museum and gallery tours along with professional development opportunities for artists through its Visual Art Awards, Fellowships and Project Grants.